Abstract: An installation tool for use with locking fasteners which reduces cam off during use. The tool comprises a cylindrical socket wrench having a central axial bore which defines a recess on one end for attachment to a socket driver and an elliptical cavity on the opposite end for engaging the collar of the locking fastener. The installation tool further comprises one or more pockets positioned on the wrenching portion of the cavity. The pockets provide space in which collar mass is deformed. As the collar is deformed to lock the collar and bolt together, collar mass is deformed into the pockets on the tool. The deformed collar mass retains the tool and collar in an engaged position until the collar is completely deformed and the fastener is locked.

Abstract: A clamp for connecting a pair of formwork panels which are to be disposed side-by-side in a common plane has two clamping members. Each of the clamping members includes a clamping arm for urging the panels together and an adjusting arm which is approximately perpendicular to the respective clamping arm. The clamping members are pivotally mounted on a U-shaped support and the adjusting arms are disposed internally of the support with their free ends overlapping. The clamping arms project from the support and are located on the same side of the latter as the transverse web bridging the legs of the support. The legs are provided with registering openings which are elongated transversely of the adjusting arms. A pivot extends through the overlapping ends of the adjusting arms and into the openings. The pivot is guided by the openings for movement transversely of the adjusting arms and carries an eccentric disc which is arranged to bear against the transverse web of the support.

Abstract: A folding tool comprises a chassis in the form of a generally U-shaped metal band having a base portion and a pair of substantially parallel spaced-apart leg portions, an axle joined to the leg portions adjacent their free ends and transversely spanning the space between them, and a multiplicity of different elongated tools pivotally received on the axle and individually pivotable selectively about the axle between a storage position in which they are received between the leg portions of the chassis and a deployed position in which they extend away from the chassis. A handle having a top wall, a pair of side walls and one end wall receives the chassis and is joined to it, the handle having a bottom opening between the leg portions of the chassis and an end opening between the free ends of the leg portions through which the tools are movable between their storage and deployed positions. The external surfaces of the top and side walls of the handle are contoured to facilitate gripping.

Abstract: A fish scraping and sliming tool (10) for the removal of the bloodline (101) from the body cavity (103) of a fish (100); wherein, the tool comprises a handle unit (11) and a scraping head scraping edge (40) which are angularly offset from the axis of a handle extension member (30) by approximately the same angular value such that the axis of the users forearm will be angularly disposed at an angle of approximately 45.degree. relative to the axis of the handle unit (11) when the user grasps the handle unit in the neutral wrist position.

Abstract: In a method and apparatus for making sausages in the form of a continuous string with subsequent separation thereof into individual sausages or into groups of interconnected sausages, means are provided for varying the separating operating in a simple manner according to the length of the sausage and the number of interconnected sausages in groups thereof desired, while still ensuring an accurated separating perfomance. In the spearating operation separator elements are mounted opposite one another on either side of the string that revolve synchronously in the conveying direction along respective opposite circular paths, their revolving speed being variable over the non-operative sector of their revolutions relative to the operative sector where their speed is compatible with the sausage conveying speed.

Abstract: A throw away tip used for back-turning in which the throw away tip cuts deeply into work material in one direction in depth setting and machines in a different direction from the that of the depth setting has at least an end cutting flank for cutting into work material as depth setting. One or more than one middle cutting flanks are connected with the end cutting flank on the feed-direction side of the side cutting flank. The rake surface is provided with first and second chip breakers grooved along the end cutting flank and the middle cutting flank, respectively. A rake face is connected with the above flanks. The end cutting flank has an acute end cutting edge angle. The middle cutting flank has a cutting edge angle wider than the end cutting edge angle and narrower than a right angle. The side cutting flank has a setting angle which is wider than the entering angle.

Abstract: A pair of pliers has two opposingly curved halves to form jaws on one end and handles on the other end. One of the halves includes a primary, fised pivot blot, and a secondary, fixed pivot lug, adjacent to the pivot bolt. The other half has an opening in the pivot area with a recess on one side to hold the fixed pivot; the other side being arced about the recess and adjacent to, but just clearing the pivot lug. A spring on the other half holds the fixed pivot in the recess for basic opening and closing of the jaws of the pliers, but when the jaws engage a solid object, the fixed pivot comes out of its recess, and the pivot lug, which is toothed, engages the adjacent portion of the arced side of the opening, which is also toothed, to shift the fulcrum of the pliers from the fixed pivot on the one side of the opening to the pivot lug on the other side.

Abstract: A wrench for rapid and safe adjustment of a scroll saw blade retaining clamp screw. The wrench provides a parallel guide pin attached to the wrench. The guide pin is inserted into a hole in the blade retaining clamp jaws, aligning and supporting the wrench head relative to the clamp screw.

Abstract: An automatic screw feeding mechanism includes a connector plate mounted on a rear open end of a hollow casing. The connector plate has a central opening to receive one end of an automtic screw driving device. A guide member has a front end extending out of a front open end of the casing, to be placed against an operating surface. The casing is slidably mounted on the guide member. An axial seat is provided in the guide member and defines an axial opening that is aligned with the central opening of the connector plate. The axial seat has a ratchet wheel rotatably provided on one side thereof. A feed belt extends into the guide member in front of the axial seat. The ratchet wheel engages the feed belt so as to align a first screw of the feed belt with the axial opening. A spring connects the axial seat and the connector plate.

Abstract: An apparatus for automatically processing an animal carcass (8). Suspension means (122, 123) suspends the carcass (8) in an inverted position with the spine inclined upwardly towards the neck (11) with the spine located beneath the carcass (8) and so that the diaphragm (119) is approximately vertical. A cutting assembly, (130) moves into the abdominal cavity adjacent to the diaphragm (119), and a cutting means (28) cuts the diaphragm (119) around the periphery. A brisket shearing means (21) cuts the brisket (20) with a shearing action along the brisket (20) from the abdomen and towards the neck end of the brisket (20). The reaction member (188) is pivotally movable relative to the brisket (20) about a rear end to generally follow the contours of the brisket (20).

Abstract: A contacting device for an installation for ultrasonic dimensional treatment of workpieces includes a frame having a base; a longitudinal carriage positioned on the frame; a transverse displacement carriage positioned on the base of the frame; an acoustic head electrically coupled with an ultrasonic generator and positioned on the longitudinal displacement carriage, the acoustic head having a tool; a working table positioned on the transverse displacement carriage; a mechanism for controlling vertical feed of the working table to and from the tool; and a mechanism for vertically moving and applying contact force to the working table. The mechanism for vertically moving and applying contact force includes a lever rocker having a roller support mounted on one end of the lever rocker and contacting the working table, and a pressure roller mounted on the other end of the lever rocker so that the roller support lifts the working table and applies contacting force to the working table.

Abstract: A hand tool includes an electrically-conductive work engaging portion. The electrically-conductive work engaging portion is connected in series with a fuse which, in turn, is connected in series with the tool handle. Small electrical charges are allowed to flow through the tool and dissipated through a charge dissipation system. If a large charge passes through the tool, the fuse blows, thus preventing injury to the tool user.

Abstract: A reversible drive mechanism for socket wrenches, having a detented selector cap thereon. The socket driving post of the wrench is fixedly attached to a triangular shaft rotatably contained within an internal cylindrical bearing surface, creating three arc-shaped spaces. The cylindrical surface is the inner surface of the head of the wrench handle. Each of the surfaces on the triangular shaft has tiltably mounted thereon a U-shaped fixture, which loosely contains within its arms a cylindrical roller. As the selector cap is rotated back and forth between selector positions, each U-shaped fixture tips back and forth on its respective triangular surface, and shifts the contained roller from one side to the other of its respective arc-shaped space.

Abstract: A grinding apparatus comprises first and second grinding wheels for grinding the arms of E-cores, or any other desired item, having two different lengths, in a single grinding operation.

Abstract: This device is used to remove the tendon from a cut of meat and the meat product produced thereby. The device includes at least one blade which is capable of substantially surrounding the tendon. The tendon is pulled through the blade and the tissue which is in close proximity to the tendon without severing other tissue, allowing the cut of meat to remain substantially intact after the tendon is removed. The cutting blade may be a singular oval-shaped blade or may be two blades placed adjacent each other to form an opening through which the tendon can be pulled. The tendon can also be attached to a grasping device which pulls the tendon past the cutting edges. This grasping device can be attached to an actuator which moves it in a linear direction away from the cutting blade thus drawing the meat tissue adjacent the tendon into contact with the cutting edges of the blade. The actuator may be mechanically, hydraulically, or pneumatically powered.

Abstract: An apparatus for grinding a disk having a center cup and a flat rim having a pair of opposite faces has a frame and an inner holder part rotatable relative to the frame about and displaceable on the frame along a holder axis and having a head formed with an outer holding face and with a central seat. An outer holder shaft rotatable relative to the frame and displaceable on the frame along the holder axis has an inner end turned toward the inner holder part and carrying a coupling in turn having an inner face and itself permitting biaxial movement between its inner face and the shaft. An outer holder part carried on the inner coupling face has a head formed with an inner holding face confronting the outer holding face and with a central projection engageable axially into the seat of the inner holder part. The inner and outer holder parts can be moved axially toward each other to clamp the center of the cup between the holding faces and to insert the outer-part projection into the inner-part seat.

Abstract: A food emulsion casing end-closure, and the method of making it, are disclosed. The end-closure is formed of a twist knot through which an air escape aperture is extended. The twist knot forms part of a wadding which is stuffed into the bore of a shirred casing stick and interference fitted therewith. The wadding acts as a shock absorber for the initial shock of extruded food emulsion and serves as means to enhance the consistency of that initial portion of extruded food emulsion. The twist knot is sufficiently tight that it can serve as a permanent end-closure or it may readily be opened by untwisting. Also provided is a lock means for maintaining the twist knot as such.

Abstract: Method and apparatus are provided for machining processes involving the generation of frictional heat in which the workpiece is contacted by a coolant whose viscosity progressively increases with decreasing temperature and by a pressurized fluid that, upon expansion while undergoing a reduction in pressure, absorbs heat and cools the coolant and increases its viscosity to provide a consistency that enhances its lubricity to minimize the generation of frictional heat during the machining process while enhancing conductive heat transfer into the machining tool.

Abstract: When birds are placed upright on the interior surface of an open-ended, non-vertical rotating drum, the birds turn, regardless of their initial orientation, so as to face "uphill" in the drum. The birds leaving the drum are all found to have the same orientation, and thus can be more easily hung on shackles.An apparatus for performing the method comprises a frame, bearings connected to the frame, an open-ended drum supported for rotation about its longitudinal axis by the bearings, means for rotating the drum about its axis, means for depositing a series of birds on the interior surface of the drum, at a first end of the drum as it rotates, and means for receiving birds exiting from a second end of the drum. The drum preferably declines from the first end toward the second at a depression angle of about 15.degree..

Abstract: A tool to aid in loosening and/or tightening a threaded fastener with respect to an article receiving the fastener, particularly a vehicle wheel, comprises a base member carrying a rotatably mounted applicator bar having a connector at one end to be coupled to the fastener to be loosened or tightened. A manually-operated force-multiplying device is supported by the base member and is effective to rotate the applicator bar about its longitudinal axis in one direction to loosen, and/or in the opposite direction to tighten, the fastener with respect to the article.